argumate:

argumate:

so I was wondering, what’s the best example of a long-form series entirely based around a heterosexual romance?

She-Ra spends five seasons getting two girls who already share a bed to kiss, which seems realistic and the entire plot of the show is built around that relationship arc, even if that wasn’t necessarily how the writer sold it at the time.

The Untamed begins with a guy failing to prevent his bro falling to his death and ends fifty episodes later with the two of them definitely not an item if you watch this show on the Chinese mainland, and of course the entire plot of the show is built around their relationship given that it comes from a boy-love novel.

where are the straight lovers whose passion drives the plot? the first and only example that springs to my mind is the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, which begins with Elizabeth and Will meeting as children and ends with them marrying, him dying, him reborning, them boning, and him ghosting her (so to speak) before eventually returning from his supernatural duties to see his child, which is certainly a very stereotypical heterosexual romance plot for a man who prefers to spend ten years at sea in the company of other (dead) men and a woman who prefers dressing up in men’s clothing and calling herself king.

I suppose you could call this story type a romantic epic– oh bugger that’s just Gone With The Wind, isn’t it.

bpd-anon said: I haven’t seen it but this is how I hear How I Met Your Mother talked about

*pained grimace* I suppose The Nanny would also qualify.

some time I want to see The Nanny connected to “chick-lit”, like Bridget Jones’ Diary, which was this early 2000s light novel mini boom of how great it was to move to the cities and access the tied professional job and sexual spheres, a genre that (I learned through my Hollywood management job, we represented one) was almost entirely authored by gay men with female pen names